Have they seen our current politico-economic stance? That’s the first time too, but seems like the expected response.

I haven’t ever tried lighting my house on fire but I can safely predict that if I did, things I care about will get ruined. It hasn’t happened before but that’s because I’ve never lighted my house on fire before. Otherwise, obvious cause and effect

Wait, this is really the flag? Now I’m imagining all sorts of femdom fanfic online

Then again we can certainly do worse, and have, than porn portraying liberty and justice dominating oppression

Finally doing something about housing prices. Just think of all those vacation homes that will no longer be used

It’s still possible that’s the point. Not the tariffs as a goal but as a weapon to hold over everyone’s head, to shake them down until they all bow before mango mussolini

The casino model of doing business except in this case the “license to print money” is literal. No one can screw it up, right? Nah, let’s declare bankrupt and stiff all our creditors, and our debt will be taken care of. Smart. Business. Move

When we first started using low flow toilets in I think 1990s they were poorly designed and didn’t flush well. Over half a century we went from 7 gal/flush —> 5–> 3 —> 1.4 and sometime less, but you can’t just use the same design with less water. Modern designs still save water but flush much more effectively.

Similarly early low flow showerheads were poorly designed but you can spend $20 on a 1.2 gal/minute that works really well, assuming you have the water pressure. My house is at the high end of acceptable pressure so I have to use a reducer with that

That’s an interesting strategy question. Would it be more effective to not show up, knowing there will be swarms of magats anyway, or to create a huge protest? At what point does lack of an audience trump a protesting audience, and what will they claim for attendance?

To be fair, it’s a huge cost to the company and they need to justify that there is value. Forcing you to make regular use may be an petty, but getting you to learn it improves your skill base and getting you to use it justifies the cost

It doesn’t reuse code that already exists in the project

I had a pissing contest with one of the junior guys over this. He didn’t seem to understand why we should use the existing function and had learned so little about the code base that he didn’t know where to find it. He’s gone

The more interesting flaw in his ai code was it hallucinated an entirely different mocking tool for unit tests

I think of ai more as an enhanced autocomplete. Instead of autocompleting function calls, it can autocomplete entire lines.

Unit tests are fairly repetitive, so it does a decent job of autocompleting those, needing only minor corrections

I’m still up in the air over regexes. It does generate something but I’m not sure it adds value

I haven’t had much success with the results of generating larger sections of code

China has shown incredible patience over the years. Why risk a hot war when you can innocently watch your potential enemy destroy themselves?

It’s still lives lost. Unnecessarily. Mango Mussolini playing games to spite any who disagree with him while people die

And another loss of reputation for the US

If we actually want manufacturing in the U.S., give companies incentives to do business here

Like the CHIPS act? The EV and related items? Infrastructure? High speed rail (most of which has a made in us requirement)? What happened to those again?

Sweeping tariffs? Shit, I need a new broom

Why not? It’s got multiple cameras so could judge distances the same way humans do.

However there have been both hardware and software updates since most of those, so the critical question is how much of a problem is it still? The article had no info or speculation on that

In this case, does it matter? Both are supposed to follow a vehicle at a safe distance

I’d be more interested in how it changes over time, as new software is pushed. While it’s important that know it had problems judging distance to a motorcycle, it’s more important to know whether it still does

I’m not entirely sure what this style even is - wouldn’t this same argument apply to Apple’s “Memoji” that has been out a few years?

You can dislike pedophiles and dog hunter yet still recognize some asshole doing it out of inflamed self-righteousness with no regard for evidence, human rights, due process is not the right solution. If even the legal system with all its checks and balances gets things wrong so often, what can you expect from some asshole out for blood?

The criminal justice system is meant to not only seek justice for victims, keep us safe from predation…… well yes vigilantism is another form of predation. Their self-righteousness doesn’t absolve their guilt. Heck, at least most pedophiles don’t try to defend themselves as doing their job right thing

Vigilantism is just a sign that government has become too corrupt to deal with problems effectively.

Or a sign that government is the problem as politicians resort more to divisiveness, hatred, bigotry and scapegoating to capture more extreme voters. Politicians stoke the outrage, inflame some groups against others, call for ending the rights of those they’ve marginalized, and even pardon those who committed treason in the name of fake vigilantism, based on manipulation and misrepresentation

I have taken calls while loading my dryer, and it’s fucking stupid to not wait. I took advantage of advanced technology called a “pocket” to carry my “mobile” device